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Pat always makes a lot of good points, but he also makes too many blanket statements. Certainly this tirade doesn’t apply to all or even a majority of clergy.

Greg is the pastor of the church I attended before my deconversion. I have a lot of respect for him, though we obviously don’t see eye to eye on several things. I wasn’t heavily involved at his church so I don’t actually know him personally.

Daniel Fincke

Yeah, I agree with you on all you said there about this Condell video, his tirades are usually more pointed than this one. I had to run with it because it’s only the second new Pat Condell since the blog’s been operational and I have really looked forward to premiering one!

And I look forward to your retort to Pastor Greg’s complaint against “heresy.” I really have a hard time bearing reading Christians try to talk about how irrational others are and then pointing to Jesus or a silly arbitrary religious doctrine as supposedly more rational.